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Class of 2022 Workshops

Ray Winstone Ray taught the final class of the term. We worked on monologues and emotions.	Cristian Valle Cristian worked with us on applying text to our body movements.	Lin Sagovsky Lin worked with us on vocal techniques, awareness exercises and some script work.
Belinda Wright and Laura Scott Top agent, Belinda, and top casting director, Laura, asked us to prepare a character song and monologue each. They then finished off with a Q&A session.	Dwane Walcott Actor, Dwane, worked on duologue scenes with us and helped us explore our characters.	Bernard Richmond Top QC, Bernard, taught us about courtroom skills and how to portray a barrister for stage and screen.
Katy Brittain Actress, Katy, worked with us on subtext and we explored the play 'Handbagged' by Moira Buffini	Elliot Barnes Worrell Elliot worked on a pre-prepared scene with us and took us through the reasons for our choices and actions.	Kevin McNally With actor, Kevin, we worked on duologue pieces and improvisation.
Alan Williams Actor, Alan Williams, lead us through character development work and improvisation.

Class of 2020 Workshops

Ishia Bennison. We performed and worked on our modern monologues with fab actress, Ishia.	David Threlfall / Roy Mitchell We paired up and worked on Shakespeare duologues with David for two weeks. Roy Mitchell also joined David for his second class.	Lucy Montgomery and Rhys Thomas We created comedy characters and improvised in different situations with comedy actors and writers, Lucy and Rhys.
Dan Sefton Screenwriter, Dan, asked us all to bring a newspaper article that would make a good TV show or film. We then brainstormed ideas of how we would develop this idea.	Ash Mukherjee A great workshop with dancer, Ash. We learnt to not think of dancing as choreography but to think of it move by move.	Sarah Vevers An hour of non stop Zumba followed by a toning session to help us with stamina and fitness. Followed by character work and monologues with Sarah.
Cristian Valle Dancer, Cristian, taught us the basic moves of the samba, salsa and the cha cha cha.	Susan Jameson With fab actress, Susan, we performed a piece of prose that we brought in and then in groups, looked at different ways of performing poems.	Beatie Edney Brilliant actress, Beatie Edney, led our first session of the year, looking at various ways of approaching our monologues and the importance of listening and being in the moment.

Class of 2019 Workshops

Trish Robertson and Julianne White Alexander technique with Trish and Julianne. Readiness for going on stage, body awareness and a little bit of singing too!	Deborah Tiso We filmed a short dance film written by Deborah based around the Beslan siege crisis. Also thanks to Steve Brookesmith and Shirley Schumacher for filming, and Jim Greenhorn and Will Chapman for recording sound.	Luke Norris Luke taught the second half of Jo's class. We focused on performing and actioning scenes from Luke's own play 'Growth'.
Cristian Valle Choreographer, Cristian, taught us stage fighting. We learnt a scene that we then filmed and took it in turns to be director/camera-person.	Kate Terris Kate did some voice work with us, a radio voiceover and then some devising work based on a short story by Jane Austen.	Ash Mukherjee Choreographer, Ash, taught us some choreography and we put text into movement.
Jo Horton Actress, Jo, did some script work with us on the play 'Growth' by Luke Norris.	Dan Sefton TV writer, Dan Sefton, did a Q&A with us about TV drama.	Lin Sagovsky Lin did some voice work with us and some exercises exploring what we like to do as actors.

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